Introduction - As a federal state with law-making powers shared between federal and provincial/territorial governments, Canada has both federal and provincial/territorial privacy laws that govern the private and public...more
L’année 2023 a été marquée par d’importants changements dans le droit canadien de la protection de la vie privée et des données. Comme nous l’avons fait les années précédentes, nous soulignons la Journée de la protection des...more
2023 was a year of significant change for Canadian privacy and data protection law. As in previous years, to mark Data Privacy Day, we’ve summarized the most important developments from the previous year and provide a look...more
Jurisdictions across the globe are implementing their own unique take on data privacy legislation, and Canada’s Quebec province is no exception. Read on to learn all about what makes this law unique and how you can comply....more
Earlier this year, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) revised its guideline, Privacy in the Workplace, which addresses employee rights and workplace obligations with respect to employee personal...more
General - Privacy and data protection requirements in Canada may originate from a number of different sources, depending on factors such as the industrial sector in which an organization operates, the jurisdiction in...more
Introduction - Recent years have brought a dramatic increase in the number of countries that have comprehensive privacy and data security laws. As the world has become increasingly digital, privacy and data protection have...more
Recent findings by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (“OPC”) found that Home Depot of Canada Inc. (“Home Depot”) did not obtain valid meaningful consent to share summary purchase information with Meta Platforms...more
California Privacy Protection Agency Releases Revised Regulations - With the effective date less than three months away, and ahead of a Board Meeting on October 28 and 29, the California Privacy Protection Agency released...more
There has been chatter in Canada for nearly two years about initiating comprehensive legislative reform to the country’s data privacy landscape. The process recently ramped up this June with the introduction of a bill to pass...more
Le 22 septembre 2022, la première série de modifications prévues par le projet de loi no 64, Loi modernisant des dispositions législatives en matière de protection des renseignements personnels, visant les lois québécoises...more
On September 22, 2022, the first set of amendments from Bill 64, An Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information, to Quebec’s Act respecting the protection of personal information...more
As states have continued to debate and pass new comprehensive privacy statutes – such as those in Virginia and Colorado – a common refrain from business leaders is the need for a comprehensive federal privacy statute that...more
Le 16 juin 2022, le gouvernement fédéral a déposé le projet de loi C-27, la Loi de 2022 sur la mise en œuvre de la Charte du numérique (le « projet de loi C‑27 » ou « projet de loi »). S’il est adopté, le projet de loi...more
On June 16, 2022, the federal government introduced Bill C-27, the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2022 (Bill C-27 or Bill). If passed, the Bill would significantly reform federal private-sector privacy law. Bill C-27 is...more
INTRODUCTION - Les organisations choisissent de plus en plus d’intégrer dans leur cadre de présentation de rapports relatif aux critères environnementaux, sociaux et de gouvernance (« ESG ») différents paramètres et divers...more
How will the Reform affect companies' privacy practices? What are the main differences between the Act and PIPEDA? - On September 21, 2021, the National Assembly adopted Bill 64, an Act to modernize legislative provisions...more
Increasingly, organizations are including privacy and data governance metrics and disclosure as part of their environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting framework. With the adoption of Quebec’s Bill-64, renewed...more
Bill 64 largely tracks with already existing privacy regulations in other jurisdictions and will take effect over the course of the next three years, with some provisions taking effect in September 2022. On September 21...more
Le 17 juin 2021, le gouvernement de l’Ontario a publié un livre blanc qui résume les propositions relatives à un projet de loi éventuel sur la protection de la vie privée dans le secteur privé de cette province. Ces...more
On June 17, 2021, the Ontario government released a white paper that outlines proposals for standalone private sector privacy legislation in the province. The proposals, if ultimately introduced as law, would represent a...more
On Nov. 17, 2020 the government of Canada introduced Bill C-11, also known as the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2020 (the Act). The Act would create the Consumer Privacy Protection Act (CPPA), not to be confused with...more
Back in November, I wrote on this blog about Big Data being one of the challenges that is forcing technology to move more to the data sooner in the discovery process. One of the most notable fun facts that illustrate just how...more
2021 promises to be an exciting year in the data and privacy space. With the adoption of technologies that collect, analyze, aggregate, distribute and share data, and the implementation of new laws and regulations in...more
En cette Journée de la protection des données, nous faisons un tour d’horizon d’une année chargée de consultations et de propositions visant à réformer certaines lois canadiennes en matière de protection des données. En 2020,...more